Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Catholic church in Campe district, Stade, Germany
Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a church building in the Campe district of Stade featuring a distinctive tent-shaped design with a seven-sided layout that symbolizes the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The interior space is defined by modern artistic elements that visitors can observe as they move through the church.
The church was constructed between 1959 and 1960 and received consecration on June 6, 1960 by Hildesheim Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak. The completion marked the creation of a new gathering place for the post-war community in Stade.
The church's name refers to the Holy Spirit, and its seven-sided tent shape recalls the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The bronze relief behind the altar shows the Annunciation on the tabernacle doors, six medallions of Christ's Passion, and the Crucifixion and Resurrection at the centre.
The church at Timm-Kröger-Straße 16, at the corner of Am Exerzierplatz in southern Stade, is permanently closed; all Catholic services in Stade now take place at St. Josef. Visitors cannot tour the interior, but the tent-shaped exterior and its seven-sided form can be viewed from the street.
The tent-shaped roof rises above a seven-sided room, a number standing for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the round altar of light Savonnières limestone was set into the floor rather than placed on it, so it seems to grow out of the ground like rock. The bronze relief behind it, five metres high and four wide, centres on the tabernacle and six medallions of Christ's Passion.
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